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This is a job for life and then some. If you compare this with full professorship (academic tenure), that will cost the university about $4 million (assuming
by wallflower 14y ago
This is a job for life and then some.
If you compare this with full professorship (academic tenure), that will cost the university about $4 million (assuming $60k/yr - probably $6-7 million if the university is upper echelon). So conservatively this is 10-15x what tenure is.
Neal Mohan sounds like the business equivalent of Jeff Dean [1]
[1] http://research.google.com/people/jeff/ http://research.google.com/people/jeff/
- hyperbovine 14y agoAhem. This is 10-15x the money portion of tenure. You still have to think about advertising all day every day. I'd take the tenure.
- samstave 14y agoI am completely naive to what you just said, may you please explain like I am five? [I am dead serious]
- burntsushi 14y agoI think the GP is saying that a tenured professor typically has the option of a wide range of job freedom. You work on pretty much what you want and when you want. The GP is contrasting this with being the head of advertising at Google, which one might guess is fairly demanding.
- thomasbk 14y agoAlso, improving advertising isn't generally seen as having the highest positive impact on society, whereas a professor might contribute to a cure for cancer.
- snaky 14y ago>have to think about advertising all day every day That sounds no difference from 'think about chemistry all day every day', doesn't it? I think advertising is more interesting and inspiring these days than many of traditional science areas. Not to mention it's a huge field including bleeding age AI, Big Data, performance, etc.